diegocaleiro comments on On saving the world - Less Wrong

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Comment author: diegocaleiro 04 February 2014 01:49:25AM 7 points [-]

Though arrogance puts some people off, keep in mind some people are very excited by it. I love your arrogance, I haven't seen that flavour of arrogance in a while, and it was the trait yudkowky had back in 2003-2005 that got me interested in him.

We've had some similar growing up types of experiences, and we interacted with the same cluster of people and ideas the last few years. I'd be curious to skype with you over some differences in actions taken and actions endorsed after our different hitories. Mostly I'd like to pick up particular examples of smart people with the saving the world mindset, see what they concluded and what they ended up doing, and checking wheter we would have done the same or different, and in which ways. My skype is diegocaleiro feel free to add it if you think this could be valuable.